“But as a culture grows decadent it becomes intrigued by art, by trinkets, by eccentricity. And the humans had art, and trinkets and eccentricity to spare!”

— Emperor Mollari, In the Beginning

#still can’t believe the centauri gave humanity their first access to faster than light travel technology in exchange for like#idk#a faberge egg and a selection of our weirdest porn#it still boggles my mind that in the B5 universe mankind’s very first contact with an alien civilization was with. them#i mean can you imagine. we spent all that time speculating and hoping and WAITING with fear and wonder in our hearts#& then its just. a bunch of evil obnoxious 18th century fops with bad hair and prehensile tentacle dicks#like that fucking sucks so much oh my god